How fake news led Dylann Roof to murder nine people -Martenzie Johnson / The Undefeated

Have you heard the story about the Democratic National Committee hiring actors to disrupt Donald Trump’s rallies? What about President Barack Obama pulling $2.6 billion in funding for veterans to reallocate to Syrian refugees?

No? Well, I’m sure you heard about the Colorado Rockies planning to sell pot brownies at Coors Field, right?

These stories are fake, you say? No way. I read them on the internet.

When white supremacist — no “alt-right” designation here — Dylann Roof walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, last summer, the then-21-year-old had already made up his mind.

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